Search Indexing The PDFs of Journal Articles Takes a Really Long Time

chrisalbon

Does anyone else notice that when you download citation information and a PDF from JSTOR or other services, PDF indexing takes a long time?

scribbler

Yes indeed. It would be nice if there were some indicator of what is going on...

dstillman

Unfortunately we're pretty limited by the Mozilla architecture—at least in the JS layer—in terms of providing progress indicators on data-intensive operations. The only way to (semi-)reliably indicate what's going on is to put a manual delay before a notification, which just slows it down more.

It's possible Firefox 3.0 will be better in this regard.

scribbler

Thanks for that--and in general, thanks for your fast, clear and helpful support.